classifiable
English
Etymology
c. 1800 classify + -able
Adjective
classifiable (not comparable)
- Able to be classified.
- 1934, George Orwell, chapter 7, in Burmese Days:
- Everything from a pair of stockings to a human soul was classifiable as 'lovely' or 'beastly'.
- 2001, Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, translated by Richard Zenith, Penguin, p. 378,
- The classifiers of things, by which I mean those scientists whose science is merely to classify, generally don't realize that what's classifiable is infinite and thus cannot be classified.
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Translations
able to be classified
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